Artists create paintings designed to be tempered in space on Blue Origin’s rocket

Artists create paintings designed to be tempered in space on Blue Origin’s rocketUplift Aerospace and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocket venture plan to put paintings where virtually no art has gone before: on the side of a rocket ship. The "canvases" for these works are exterior panels that will be mounted on Blue Origin's suborbital New Shepard spaceship, sent to the space frontier during an uncrewed test flight, then returned to Earth for delivery to the paintings' purchasers. Two Utah artists known for their realist and surrealist paintings — Jeff Hein and Mark R. Pugh — will come up with creations that are meant to weather the aerodynamically challenging ascent and… Read More